Dr. Agamuthu Pariatamby
Position
Professor, Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Malaya.
Prof. Agamuthu has been with UM for 43 years and is the Founder-President of the Malaysian Society of Waste Management and Environment. He is also the Vice-President/International Advisory Board Member for Society of Solid Waste Management Experts in Asia and Pacific Islands (SWAPI) and an honorary member of the International Solid Waste Management Association (ISWA). He is the Founder-Head of the Center for Waste Management Research, UM. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Science, Malaysia and a Fellow of Institute for Global Environmental Strategy, Japan.
Since 1996, he has supervised over 200 Bachelor and Master of Science Degree students as well as 25 doctorate students.
Prof. Agamuthu is the Editor in Chief of the international Waste Management & Research Journal, Editor-in-Chief of the Malaysian Journal of Science and was a Senate Member of UM (2005 – 2007). Prof. Agamuthu is an Editorial Board Member of Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management (Japan), Journal of Safety and Environment (China), reviewer for Journal of Hazardous Wastes (USA), Journal of Environmental Management (USA) and International Journal of Environment and Waste Management and many more. He is also the Registered Subject Expert (solid waste management, under Section 34A, Environmental Quality Act, Malaysia) and is an expert consultant for ADB, UNEP, UNCRD and ISWA.
Awards &Achievements
Prof. Agamuthu has authored more than 460 scientific publications and many books on Solid Waste. His research interests focus on landfill gas studies and bio-covers, waste characterization, municipal waste management, solidification/stabilization of hazardous wastes, biological treatment of waste, waste minimization and cleaner production, leachate studies and use for agro-irrigation, landfill remediation by chemical and biological methods, water and wastewater treatment, plastic biodegradation studies, Environmental Management Systems, Environmental Impact Assessment and waste management, Life Cycle Analysis in waste management, and value-addition of agricultural and industrial wastes for enzyme production, value-addition of agricultural wastes, material flow analysis (MFA), and bioremediation.
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